8-letter words containing s, i, r, p
- skip car — an open car for charging a blast furnace.
- sleipnir — the eight-legged horse of Odin.
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- slipover — of or denoting a garment that can be put on easily over the head
- slippers — Slippers are loose, soft shoes that you wear in your room.
- slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- sliprail — a rail in a fence that can be slipped out of place to make an opening
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spermine — a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spin-dry — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- spinnery — a spinning mill.
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spirifer — any of various fossil brachiopods of the genus Spirifer having spirals on each side
- spirilla — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spiritus — a spirit or breathing
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoonier — foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.